Global Gardeners
promoting education for sustainable development
Global Gardeners is a programme of participatory activities for schools which provides active education for sustainable development to stimulate a deeper understanding of the relationship between plants and people in our local lives and on the global scale.
The project is currently being developed to respond to the DfES’s Sustainable Schools Agenda, to provide a whole school approach through the 8 doorways, with clear curriculum links and opportunities for community participation. The link with Nicaragua provides the focus for the Global Dimension with clear outcomes for Local well-being which are highlighted alongside.
Inclusion & Participation are inherent in the methodology of the project and encourage the involvement of the whole school and wider communities. Each of the other 5 thematic doorways are addressed through discrete but interconnected activity modules:
